# 2007 MLS expansion draft

The 2007 MLS Expansion Draft was held on November 21, 2007, and is a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team San Jose Earthquakes. They made 10 selections from a pool of players from current MLS clubs.

## Format

* Only one player may be selected from each team, three of the league's 13 current teams will not have a player selected.
* Teams will be allowed to protect 11 players from their 28-man rosters. Generation adidas players are automatically protected, though players who are graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2007 season are not.
* Each team may only leave one senior international player unprotected. Players are considered SIs here based on their age for the 2008 season, not the 2007 season.

## Expansion Draft

| # | Player | Position | Country | Previous club |
| 1 | Ryan Cochrane | Defender | United States | Houston Dynamo |
| 2 | Clarence Goodson | Defender | United States | FC Dallas |
| 3 | Ned Grabavoy | Midfielder | United States | Columbus Crew |
| 4 | James Riley | Defender-Midfielder | United States | New England Revolution |
| 5 | Joe Vide | Midfielder | United States | New York Red Bulls |
| 6 | Iván Guerrero | Midfielder | Honduras | Chicago Fire |
| 7 | Brian Carroll | Midfielder | United States | D.C. United |
| 8 | Jason Hernandez | Defender | Puerto Rico | Chivas USA |
| 9 | Gavin Glinton | Forward | Turks and Caicos Islands | LA Galaxy |
| 10 | Chris Pozniak | Defender | Canada | Toronto FC |

## Team-by-team breakdown

Source

### C.D. Chivas USA

| Exposed | Protected |
| David Arvizu | Jonathan Bornstein |
| Desmond Brooks | Maykel Galindo |
| Bobby Burling | Brad Guzan |
| Preston Burpo | Sacha Kljestan |
| John Cunliffe | Jesse Marsch |
| Jorge Flores | Francisco Mendoza |
| Amado Guevara | Paulo Nagamura |
| Anthony Hamilton | Ante Razov |
| Jason Hernandez | Claudio Suárez |
| Carlos Llamosa | Shavar Thomas |
| Rodrigo López | Lawson Vaughn |
| Laurent Merlin | |
| Justin Myers | |
| Ramón Núñez | |
| Orlando Perez | |
| Eder Robles | |
| Erasmo Solorzano | |
| Alex Zotinca | |

### Chicago Fire

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Jon Busch | Chad Barrett | Bakary Soumaré |
| Floyd Franks | Cuauhtémoc Blanco | |
| Mike Banner | C.J. Brown | |
| Jeff Curtin | Calen Carr | |
| Jim Curtin | Wilman Conde | |
| Iván Guerrero | Justin Mapp | |
| Diego Gutierrez | Logan Pause | |
| Bruno Menezes | Matt Pickens | |
| Nick Noble | Dasan Robinson | |
| Brian Plotkin | Chris Rolfe | |
| Jordan Russolillo | Gonzalo Segares | |
| Osei Telesford | | |
| John Thorrington | | |
| Daniel Woolard | | |

### Colorado Rapids

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| José Cancela | Mehdi Ballouchy | Nico Colaluca |
| Conor Casey | Colin Clark | |
| John DiRaimondo | Terry Cooke | |
| Dan Gargan | Bouna Coundoul | |
| Jordan Harvey | Omar Cummings | |
| Nicolas Hernández | Facundo Erpen | |
| Justin Hughes | Herculez Gomez | |
| Stephen Keel | Ugo Ihemelu | |
| Jovan Kirovski | Kosuke Kimura | |
| Nick LaBrocca | Pablo Mastroeni | |
| Mike Petke | Jacob Peterson | |
| Brandon Prideaux | | |
| Tony Sanneh | | |
| Zach Thornton | | |
| Clifton Wilmes | | |

### Columbus Crew

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Jason Garey | Brad Evans | Kei Kamara |
| Bill Gaudette | Eddie Gaven | Robbie Rogers |
| Ned Grabavoy | Marcos González | Tim Ward |
| Leonard Griffin | Frankie Hejduk | Jed Zayner |
| Andy Gruenebaum | Ezra Hendrickson | |
| Andy Herron | Will Hesmer | |
| Ben Hunter | Chad Marshall | |
| Ryan Junge | Alejandro Moreno | |
| Stefani Miglioranzi | Danny O'Rourke | |
| Adam Moffat | Duncan Oughton | |
| Brandon Moss | Guillermo Barros Schelotto | |
| Andrei Pacheco | | |
| Andrew Peterson | | |
| Rusty Pierce | | |
| Jacob Thomas | | |
| Ricardo Virtuoso | | |

### D.C. United

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Nicholas Addlery | Bobby Boswell | Bryan Arguez |
| Brian Carroll | Marc Burch | |
| Jeff Carroll | Luciano Emilio | |
| Shawn Crowe | Fred | |
| Stephen deRoux | Christian Gómez | |
| Rod Dyachenko | Devon McTavish | |
| Joshua Gros | Jaime Moreno | |
| Guy-Roland Kpene | Bryan Namoff | |
| Domenic Mediate | Ben Olsen | |
| Jerson Monteiro | Troy Perkins | |
| Justin Moose | Clyde Simms | |
| Mira Mupier | | |
| Jay Nolly | | |
| Brad North | | |
| Greg Vanney | | |
| Jamil Walker | | |

### F.C. Dallas

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Juan Sebastián Botero | Arturo Alvarez | Abdus Ibrahim |
| Andrew Daniels | Ray Burse | Blake Wagner |
| Michael Dello-Russo | Kenny Cooper | Anthony Wallace |
| Denílson | Dax McCarty | |
| Chris Gbandi | Drew Moor | |
| Sandy Gbandi | Ricardinho | |
| Clarence Goodson | Pablo Ricchetti | |
| Scott Jones | Carlos Ruíz | |
| Roberto Miña | Marcelo Saragosa | |
| Dominic Oduro | Adrian Serioux | |
| Aaron Pitchkolan | Juan Toja | |
| Bobby Rhine | | |
| Darío Sala | | |
| Abe Thompson | | |
| David Wagenfuhr | | |
| Chase Wileman | | |
| Alex Yi | | |

### Houston Dynamo

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Corey Ashe | Wade Barrett | Patrick Ianni |
| Mike Chabala | Brian Ching | |
| Ryan Cochrane | Ricardo Clark | |
| Paul Dalglish | Brad Davis | |
| Eric Ebert | Dwayne De Rosario | |
| Nick Hatzke | Nate Jaqua | |
| John Michael Hayden | Stuart Holden | |
| Kenneth Hoerner | Brian Mullan | |
| Jordan James | Richard Mulrooney | |
| Pat Onstad | Joseph Ngwenya | |
| Erik Ustruck | Eddie Robinson | |
| Craig Waibel | | |
| Zach Wells | | |
| Chris Wondolowski | | |
| Stephen Wondolowski | | |

### Kansas City Wizards

| Exposed | Protected |
| Jose Burciaga Jr. | Davy Arnaud |
| Eloy Colombano | Jimmy Conrad |
| Edson Elcock | Nick Garcia |
| A. J. Godbolt | Michael Harrington |
| Willy Guadarrama | Jack Jewsbury |
| Kevin Hartman | Eddie Johnson |
| Aaron Hohlbein | Carlos Marinelli |
| Will John | Kurt Morsink |
| Chris Konopka | Scott Sealy |
| Michael Kraus | Sasha Victorine |
| Eric Kronberg | Kerry Zavagnin |
| Amir Lowery | |
| Ryan McMahen | |
| Ryan Pore | |
| Ryan Raybould | |
| Tyson Wahl | |
| Lance Watson | |

### Los Angeles Galaxy

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Steve Cronin | Chris Albright | Quavas Kirk |
| Mike Caso | David Beckham | Israel Sesay |
| Lance Friesz | Edson Buddle | |
| Gavin Glinton | Joe Cannon | |
| Alan Gordon | Landon Donovan | |
| Kelly Gray | Ty Harden | |
| Kevin Harmse | Ante Jazic | |
| Kyle Martino | Chris Klein | |
| Clint Mathis | Carlos Pavón | |
| Josh Tudela | Mike Randolph | |
| Peter Vagenas | Troy Roberts | |
| Kyle Veris | | |
| Abel Xavier | | |

### New England Revolution

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Bryan Byrne | Adam Cristman | Amaechi Igwe |
| Andy Dorman | Jay Heaps | |
| Gary Flood | Shalrie Joseph | |
| Joe Franchino | Jeff Larentowicz | |
| Miguel Gonzalez | Pat Noonan | |
| Kyle Helton | Michael Parkhurst | |
| Avery John | Steve Ralston | |
| Brad Knighton | Matt Reis | |
| Marshall Leonard | Khano Smith | |
| Chris Loftus | Wells Thompson | |
| Kenny Mansally | Taylor Twellman | |
| Sainey Nyassi | | |
| James Riley | | |
| Willie Sims | | |
| Doug Warren | | |

### New York Red Bulls

| Exposed | Protected |
| Sal Caccavale | Jozy Altidore |
| Blake Camp | Juan Pablo Ángel |
| Danny Cepero | Jon Conway |
| Francis Doe | Hunter Freeman |
| Kevin Goldthwaite | Dema Kovalenko |
| Elie Ikangu | Carlos Mendes |
| Chris Karcz | Jeff Parke |
| Jerrod Laventure | Claudio Reyna |
| Chris Leitch | Dane Richards |
| Mike Magee | Seth Stammler |
| Randi Patterson | Dave van den Bergh |
| Santino Quaranta | |
| Markus Schopp | |
| Siniša Ubiparipović | |
| Joe Vide | |
| John Wolyniec | |

### Real Salt Lake

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Chris Brown | Kyle Beckerman | Nikolas Besagno |
| Kyle Brown | Alecko Eskandarian | Yura Movsisyan |
| Steven Curfman | Fabian Espindola | Chris Seitz |
| Kenny Cutler | Robbie Findley | |
| Willis Forko | Atiba Harris | |
| Duke Hashimoto | Matias Mantilla | |
| Christian Jimenez | Javier Morales | |
| Jean-Martial Kipre | Nick Rimando | |
| Dustin Kirby | Nathan Sturgis | |
| Ritchie Kotschau | Carey Talley | |
| Chris Lancos | Chris Wingert | |
| Kyle Reynish | | |
| Jack Stewart | | |
| Jamie Watson | | |
| Andy Williams | | |

### Toronto FC

| Exposed | Protected |
| Nana Attakora-Gyan | Jim Brennan |
| Andrew Boyens | Jeff Cunningham |
| Adam Braz | Danny Dichio |
| Miguel Cañizález | Todd Dunivant |
| Srdjan Djekanovic | Maurice Edu |
| Gabe Gala | Tyrone Marshall |
| David Guzmán | Ronnie O'Brien |
| Tyler Hemming | Carl Robinson |
| Andrea Lombardo | Collin Samuel |
| Stephen Lumley | Greg Sutton |
| Joey Melo | Marvell Wynne |
| Christian Núñez | |
| Chris Pozniak | |
| Marco Reda | |
| Kyriakos Stamatopoulos | |